Challenges in Transnational Litigation: Representing Absentee Migrant Workers in U.S. Courts - Global Workers Justice Alliance presented its manual at the 2008 National Farmworker Conference. The Manual describes some challenges practitioners face when representing migrant clients, and some strategies on how to overcome those challenges. The Manual covers issues such as how to take a deposition in a foreign country, and how to possibly get your client into the U.S. for participation in on-going litigation. The Manual will continue to grow and change as advocates let us know of their experiences and more pressing challenges.
For a copy of the Manual, you can go to the National Employment Law Project (NELP) National Wage & Hour Clearinghouse under the Transnational Workers section or contact Global Workers at admin@globalworkers.org.
Defending the Rights of Transnational Migrants in the USA - This 200-page Spanish language manual on US employment–related law, human trafficking, U.S. civil procedure and relevant international law was developed for the Global Workers Defenders Network. It is used by our Defenders as an ongoing resource as they partner with advocates to facilitate cases and educate the local migrant communities. The manual is updated for the periodic New Defender Trainings.
Accessing Justice Across Borders Newsletter of the Labor & Employment Committee,
National Lawyers Guild, May 2009.
15 Steps the US Government Can Do to Improve the Guestworker Program NOW
Prepared August 22, 2008.
United States Guest Worker Program Operates with Impunity in Sending Countries
Submitted by Global Workers Justice Alliance to the United Nations Special Rapporteur
on Migrants, May 12, 2007 New York, New York.
Cathleen Caron, Using Portable Justice to Achieve Additional Remedies for
Trafficked Persons Alliance News, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Issue 27,
July 2007.
Cathleen Caron, Portable Justice, Migrant Workers, and the United States, 40 Clearinghouse
Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy 549, January-February 2007.
Global Workers Comments on United Nations Secretary-General Report on Migration and
Development Prepared June 2006.
Global Workers Require Global
Justice:
The Portability of Justice Challenge for Migrants in
the USAPrepared for The Committee on Migrant Workers Day of General Discussion Oct 2005.
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